Adapting an online prevention program to the higher education area in Germany
- Purpose: Hazardous alcohol consumption among university students represents a prime health risk for this population. Due to a lack of appropriate German-language (online) prevention programs, an existing U.S.-American program was transferred to the German higher education area and then evaluated. Method: For this purpose, both qualitative focus groups and a quantitative evaluation were undertaken. The guided focus groups allowed a further adaptation of the prevention program: An improved frequency–quantity questionnaire for the drinking behavior of German-speaking students was developed, and thresholds for hazardous consumption were included. Results: The additional quantitative verification of the adaptation found that 65.9% of the surveyed students found the adapted program suitable for the higher education context and 62.6% stated that every university should provide such a program. Discussion: The adaptation process described here made it possible to develop an online prevention program tailored to the lifeworld of students in the German-speaking region.
Author: | M. Braun, T. Ganz, T. Heidenreich, M. Laging |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731520905110 |
Parent Title (English): | Research on Social Work Practice |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Place of publication: | Thousand Oaks, CA |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2020 |
Release Date: | 2021/02/01 |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 5 |
Pagenumber: | 9 |
First Page: | 496 |
Last Page: | 504 |
Institutes: | Fakultäten / Soziale Arbeit, Gesundheit und Pflege |
Open Access: | nur im Hochschulnetz |
Relevance: | Peer reviewed Publikation in Thomson-Reuters-Listung |
Licence (German): | ![]() |